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petsho · 09-10-2005, 01:14 AM

Sorry if I am somewhat of a newbie and someone has posted about LimeWire already and (just now I am realizing that perhaps a search in TF on "LimeWire" might have been prudent) but I am taking the excuse of newbies acting stupid to heart and posting this thread here without looking for closer relations.

All this talk about "community" and contribtuing (and my recollections that when I first ran across T.F. about a year ago and my jaw dropped for the week or so I was on it before I discovered that whole section became banned... does the words keys ring a bell?... ...are they still coming??? )

But my "contribution" is this question:

Also, at about the same personal historic period, I was a newbie to "LimeWire" (which I am under the impression is hard to find on the net these days as legal stipulates are getting tougher) ... (being a newbie on that as well I ran into the very disastrous problem of newbie eating trojans... so I swore off limewire for a while... ie to this day)
but back to my question: I was running Limewire on Win98 and a 56K dialup.
a property of this configuration is that almost universally (I cant tell but the new MS Windows update mechanism seems to get around this limit as well???) ... "almost" universally, when you are using a 56K dialup and downloading a file, your average top speed is 5.5 K to 4.5 K. (whether P2P or web pages)

So why do they tell you you get 56K?

BUT, and I do mean BUT... the insatllation of limewire seemed to do something else. AM I WRONG ABOUT THIS??!! --> If you left Limewire alone it would start downloading at speeds up around 45K!!!

Now what I mean by this is that it seemed to me that when the screen saver made the whole screen black... ie all processor use devoted to the OS (no GUI) then the download speed was maxing at the actual claim of about 56K...
And I have never seen this to actually happen.
My belief that this is true is based on falling asleep, seeing the black screen, touching the mouse, and looking at the rates Limewire was claiming which would be up around 45K but immediately dropping once the screen was not black... AM I WRONG ABOUT THIS???

petsho

09-10-2005, 01:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
petsho Upright	Lime Wire Sorry if I am somewhat of a newbie and someone has posted about LimeWire already and (just now I am realizing that perhaps a search in TF on "LimeWire" might have been prudent) but I am taking the excuse of newbies acting stupid to heart and posting this thread here without looking for closer relations. All this talk about "community" and contribtuing (and my recollections that when I first ran across T.F. about a year ago and my jaw dropped for the week or so I was on it before I discovered that whole section became banned... does the words keys ring a bell?... ...are they still coming??? ) But my "contribution" is this question: Also, at about the same personal historic period, I was a newbie to "LimeWire" (which I am under the impression is hard to find on the net these days as legal stipulates are getting tougher) ... (being a newbie on that as well I ran into the very disastrous problem of newbie eating trojans... so I swore off limewire for a while... ie to this day) but back to my question: I was running Limewire on Win98 and a 56K dialup. a property of this configuration is that almost universally (I cant tell but the new MS Windows update mechanism seems to get around this limit as well???) ... "almost" universally, when you are using a 56K dialup and downloading a file, your average top speed is 5.5 K to 4.5 K. (whether P2P or web pages) So why do they tell you you get 56K? BUT, and I do mean BUT... the insatllation of limewire seemed to do something else. AM I WRONG ABOUT THIS??!! --> If you left Limewire alone it would start downloading at speeds up around 45K!!! Now what I mean by this is that it seemed to me that when the screen saver made the whole screen black... ie all processor use devoted to the OS (no GUI) then the download speed was maxing at the actual claim of about 56K... And I have never seen this to actually happen. My belief that this is true is based on falling asleep, seeing the black screen, touching the mouse, and looking at the rates Limewire was claiming which would be up around 45K but immediately dropping once the screen was not black... AM I WRONG ABOUT THIS??? petsho